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Originally Posted by nadabutamor
Thanks for replying jhowell!
I made the font larger and even changed the font from Adobe Caslon to Adobe Garamond and then to Times, but it still turns out the same for some reason.
It could be the automated margins around the "A" that's messing with it, or just the ebooks being ebooks.
I'm just going to remove the first large letter and keep it all the same size. I'll explain that the client that it's one of the many flaws of ebook files that sometimes work and sometimes doesn't.
But if you know another solution to this issue, I would love to learn about it!
Thank you so much!
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So, Nothing But Love:
You said that you're making this book
for a client, is that right? Presumably, that means you're being
paid?
This is a perfectly common result, in MOBI, and has been for the last 8+ years. With all due respect--because we all have to start someplace--if you
haven't dealt with this before, that says to me that you
probably don't have enough experience to be charging someone.
Changing the font will have precisely
ZERO effect on the line-height issue that surrounds Raised Initials or Dropcaps or BFLs. There
are ways to work around this, but...that requires
experience. And to do it correctly, it requires writing media queries
for pretty much every device. it's a fair amount of work--but it's doable. And even then, there can be issues--and if you don't have 5 or more devices to test upon, you won't see them coming.
You should be upfront and tell your client that you simply don't have the knowledge to fix it, because when s/he sees
other ebooks with Drops, BFLs and RIs that don't have this issue, s/he is going to wonder about what you're telling him/her.
I'm sorry if I sound blunt or harsh, but we are constantly seeing posts like this here, from
bookmakers with
paying clients, who are running into
the most basic issues, in eBookmaking, that they should have
already run into and surmounted on their first book, or certainly within their first FEW books. (My first Raised Initial, and the concomitant complications? In my 4th,
ever, MOBI file. Late 2009 or
possibly Spring of 2010, if memory serves. ) I
strongly recommend that you 'fess up to your client, and perhaps consider subbing out the work to a more-experienced bookmaker. God knows, there are a thousand home-based "formatters" available out there who work on the cheap.
Hitch